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Gore Book Criticizes “Politics of Fear”
"We live in an age when the thirty-second television spot is the most powerful force shaping the US electorate's thinking, and America is currently in the hands of an administration less interested than any previous government in sharing the truth with the citizenry." So writes Al Gore in his harsh look at the state of America after almost eight years in which the values upon which the country was founded have been subverted or eroded into "a politics of fear, secrecy and blind faith."